Michael Martin-Smucker's questions

Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim is one of my favorite games. It was released in 2000 for Windows and Mac, and Linux Game Publishing released a version that ran natively on Linux in 2003.

• For awhile, this game was available in the Ubuntu Software Center, sitting at the #10 spot in top paid applications several years ago. It doesn't appear to be available there anymore
• The game was available through the independent Desura game store. I bought it there several years ago, and it worked fine for awhile, but when I reinstalled Ubuntu recently, I found out I can no longer install Desura as they seem to have shut down. Content purchased there seems to be lost (at least for now).
• The Linux Game Publishing website has been down for several years now, so no chance to buy it directly from the source.
• Steam and GOG only have the Windows version of the game.

Is it still possible to buy and play the Linux port of this game?

Several of my parents' photos in F-Spot have gone missing. I can't seem to figure out the location of the photo file that F-Spot expects to find. I've been looking around for something like "Photo Properties" but so far I haven't seen it.

This is sounding confusing, so hopefully a screenshot will help clear things up:

• In this photo, F-Spot is missing a picture.
• We can see that the filename is img_0445.jpg.
• I've found the actual photo in my backups.
• I'm having a hard time replacing the missing photo, because I can't figure out in which directory F-Spot is expecting to find the photo.

Is there any way, using F-Spot to find the File Location of a photo? Something like Banshee's "Open Containing Folder"? I thought previously you could right-click a photo and choose "Copy File Location", but I'm not seeing that option in F-Spot 0.8.

Several times over the past couple years, I've heard of people using apt-fast for updating and installing packages, but I'm not really sure what it does. I think I've traced its origin to this forum post, and it seems to be a script that speeds up apt-get operations.

What exactly does the script do? Are there any potential downsides to using it? If not, why isn't everyone using it?

After poking around on the Internet for awhile, I haven't been able to find the default icons used in Gnome 3 anywhere. My requirements are fairly simple:

• SVGs would be nice, but not necessary
• This doesn't need to be installable as an icon theme in Ubuntu
• A compressed folder with all of the icons would be good, but I don't mind browsing a repository and downloading individual icons.

As a last resort, I could always download a full Gnome 3 iso and find the icons that way, but hopefully someone knows of a better solution.

Until you save a document in gedit, syntax highlighting is turned off. There are obviously good reasons for this -- people might get confused if certain words were randomly showing up in different colors. But for my purposes, I use gedit almost exclusively for HTML editing.

A lot of times I paste snippets of code into a new gedit document for quick editing, and I have to manually set the syntax coloring to HTML. Other times, I open ColdFusion (.cfm) documents, which gedit apparently doesn't recognize, and again I have to manually set the color to HTML. Both of these inconveniences would be fixed if I could find a way to tell gedit to automatically use HTML syntax highlighting for new documents and documents without a recognized file extension. Is this possible?

With previous versions of Ubuntu, you could specify mount points for various hard drives and partitions during the installation process. This was useful, because I have a backup hard drive that I set to mount at /media/backup. When installing Ubuntu 11.04, I can see the box that I used to type this info into, but it doesn't allow keyboard input and I can only choose the pre-defined mount points (e.g. "/" and "/home").

Several of the comboboxes that I use regularly (the box to select syntax highlighting in the gedit statusbar, boxes for choosing smart playlist criteria in Banshee, etc) require me to click on them with the mouse, scroll down for awhile, then click on the item that I want. Being able to type into these boxes and have the list jump to the first matching entry would be a nice time saver.

So I'm wondering, has this been implemented in Gtk+ 3? If not, is there a bug report somewhere that I could subscribe to? And is there a technical reason that this hasn't been implemented, or is it a design decision. Since this behavior is common in all major web browsers, I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of this, but a few minutes of Googling didn't lead me to anything relevant.

After updating to Ubuntu 10.10 (Gnome), KMyMoney now opens in fullscreen mode by default, and I can't find any option to get out of fullscreen. I've tried pressing F11, and I've taken a pretty good look through the view options, but I can't find any way to turn off fullscreen mode. After a little looking, it seems like KMyMoney's preferences can't be found in gconf-editor, and there doesn't seem to be a command-line switch for turning fullscreen on or off. So I'm at a loss, and any help would be much appreciated, thanks!